Cat Stevens
Penny Valentine, Sounds, 20 March 1971
CAT STEVENS is very rare amongst the British writer syndrome in that a vast percentage of his work stems from his environment. He is a self-confessed environmental writer, the mainstay of his work being a total product of one fact that for more than 20 years Stevens was born, lived and brought up in the heart of London.
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